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Writers for Readers, one of Kansas City's premier literary events, returns with an exciting lineup featuring celebrated author Lan Samantha Chang in c...

Writers for Readers returns with a special lineup featuring celebrated author Alexander Chee and the announcement of...

Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr...

For four years, noted pedestrian Henry Fortunato, the Library’s director of public affairs, has been planning and preparing for hi...

Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictiona...

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...

LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story: The Home of Friendly Merchants, traces the history of the district from the Civ...

Jewish Community Center 5801 W. 115th St., Overland Park RSVP: 913.327.8000 Published in 1961, The Phantom Tollbooth w...

Former Kansas City School District teacher James P. Wilcox discusses Sex, Lies, and the Classroom – a novel...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with George Caleb Bingham, whose paintings of Missouri and the American frontier have...